Parenting Hard of Hearing Children

Plenty of books and web sites are available on parenting deaf and hard of hearing children, but not many are about ONLY hard of hearing children. Even though we say "deaf and hard of hearing" in the same breath, there are differences between the two. One parent complained to me that most of the books on parenting deaf and hard of hearing children that she has found seemed to focus on deaf children.

Self Help for Hard of Hearing People (SHHH) has an online position paper, "Educating Hard of Hearing Students in Regular Schools."

These are the few resources that I found that were solely about hard of hearing children. I looked for books and information that stated hard of hearing children in the title, although I am aware there are other books and resources that use "hearing impaired" in the title that may be just as suitable:

• Our Forgotten Children: Hard-of-Hearing Pupils in the Schools. Published by Self Help for Hard of Hearing People.

• Not Deaf Enough: Raising a Child Who is Hard of Hearing with Hugs, Humor, and Imagination

• Families with Hard of Hearing Children Boys Town Press - This is a video series.